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[IceCold]

Ex:

Both (awesome songs btw) sampled from Eternal Champions:

Bone Thugs-N-Harmony - Eternal: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKQe23hUnY4
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX1_fWqdSL8&feature=related

Bone Thugs-N-Harmony - Crossroad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=234aK1Mpc0I
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8tsm35qqrg

From Chrono Trigger:

Wiz Khalifa - Never Been: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKWFvbgkWls
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJtwEpQe6w0


Do you guys know other songs where this happened?

 

[Downhome]

There is a Britney Spears song that I still swear sampled a sound from a Pac-Man game, or something along those lines. I just can't ever place just what exactly it is though. It is in Slave To You...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mzybwwf2HoQ

That sound in the "chorus", it's from a game of some sort. I remember it from years ago, but I can't place what it is exactly.

 

[krpiper]

pac-man fever

 

[Korigama]

The only thing I can think of is Whitney Houston's "It's Not Right but It's Okay" and Parasite Eve 1's "Out of Phase" (precinct theme). Not that I can prove it's anything other than a coincidence.

It's Not Right but It's Okay

vs.

Out of Phase

 

[TONX]

Crystal Castles has a quite a few.

 

[Jasconius]

Bloody Tears

source:

Castlevania!

(there are a bunch of other versions too if you search)

 

[ajf009]

Hail Mary by Outerspace sure sounds like it was taken from the 8bit game time.. but I can't be positive.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pn2gEFVMerg




^^Was it really Jasconius? Very cool, what game?

 

[XANDER CAGE]

Burial - Archangel samples the opening credits of Metal Gear Solid 2.

On the same album, Endorphin samples Lost Carol from Silent Hill 3.

 

[JackEtc]

Not really sampling as much as completely using, but...

So good.

 

[XANDER CAGE]

Not really sampling as much as completely using, but...

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2Wb3ITuRfDo/ScRMWAfqriI/AAAAAAAAAww/uK0BlUkWtFg/s400/frontcover.jpg

So good.

Hell yeah, all of the Team Teamwork stuff is great.

 

[GekigangerV]

Del The Funky Homosapien's "Protoculture"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_owLgOBTng

Samples some Darkstalkers. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWvPfXXek84&feature=related

Morrigan's victory theme from the first game.

 

[Seven Force]

J. Cole's Dollar and a Dream III samples "Darkness of the Unknown" from Kingdom Hearts II.

 

[AlexMeloche]

I think the Zedd Remix of Born This Way has the Mario fireball sound in it. (You can hear it around two minutes in).

 

[StriKeVillain]

Arcade Blues by Neon Indian samples some old fighting game. Maybe someone can help me narrow it down?

 

[JackEtc]

Hell yeah, all of the Team Teamwork stuff is great.

I like a lot of his/their(?) versions better than the regular songs. Probably because I heard a lot of their versions first, bit still. Awesome.

I just recently went and downloaded Vinyl Fantasy 7. I hadn't before because I never played FF7 and wouldn't know the music. I don't know the music, but still, that's a dope album, just like the other 2.

Shame he/they said no more video game stuff.

 

[vexvegaz]

beani sigel - pac man

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uJZa-fAJkk

 

[XANDER CAGE]

I like a lot of their versions better than the regular songs. Probably because I heard a lot of their versions first, bit still. Awesome.

I just recently went and downloaded Vinyl Fantasy 7. I hadn't before because I never played FF7 and wouldn't know the music. I don't know the music, but still, that's a dope album, just like the other 2.

Shame he/they said no more video game stuff.

What about Super-Nintendo-Sega-Genesis? It has my favorite Team Teamwork mix ever on it.

DONKEY KONG FLAVOR

 

[Cudder]

Chip Tha Ripper- Boomshakalaka

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwmUVqoy1p0

There is no CDQ version of the song yet though.

 

[Sage00]

I remember hearing a song that sounded exactly like Twister from The World Ends With You on the radio. Anyone have any idea which one it was?

 

[PolishQ]

Cadence Weapon - "Grim Fandango" (despite the name, samples the Silent Hill theme)

The Smashing Pumpkins famously sampled the "explosion from DOOM" sound effect in "Where Boys Fear to Tread" off of Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness.

 

[thefro]

Lazy Jones - Stardust

got remixed into

Zombie Nation - Kernkraft 400

 

[JackEtc]

What about Super-Nintendo-Sega-Genesis? It has my favorite Team Teamwork mix ever on it.

DONKEY KONG FLAVOR

Yeah, have it as well, but I meant after that, no more. He said on like his tumblr or some place "NO MORE GAME MASHUPS. Team Teamwork is moving on to a different style."

Now he's doing like meh remixes and DJing on clubs, I think. It's a shame.

Also Team Teamwork is such a good name.

 

[GatorBait]

Ex:

Both (awesome songs btw) sampled from Eternal Champions:

Bone Thugs-N-Harmony - Eternal: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKQe23hUnY4
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX1_fWqdSL8&feature=related

Bone Thugs-N-Harmony - Crossroad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=234aK1Mpc0I
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8tsm35qqrg

From Chrono Trigger:

Wiz Khalifa - Never Been: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKWFvbgkWls
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJtwEpQe6w0


Do you guys know other songs where this happened?

Dude...you just listed every single one I was going to.

These are some grade-A examples of how you sample video game music as a hip hop artist, in my opinion.

 

[OnPoint]

No Hellbound?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_3bvbzYN4c

 

[Vitet]

Does this count?

Mope from Bloodhound Gang

 

[UltimaPooh]

What about Super-Nintendo-Sega-Genesis? It has my favorite Team Teamwork mix ever on it.

DONKEY KONG FLAVOR

A good one. I also really like this sample of that song:

http://youtu.be/XIed0kUh57w

I also love this song off of their Ocarina of Rhyme album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4O5B9DV2HoI

 

[enzo_gt]

J. Cole's Dollar and a Dream III samples "Darkness of the Unknown" from Kingdom Hearts II.

holy what

COLE WORLD, NO KHIII

 

[Def Jukie]

Percee P - 2 Brothers From The Gutter: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf6tA0pTtdw
Contra (NES) - Title Screen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y2Tvi2RnmI

Oh No - The Ride: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_C5NcyPYsR0 (I could only find the instrumental on youtube)
Castlevania III - Title Screen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmx3gnQH8tY

Cage - Follow The Bleeder: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qw2GbQSEq_8
Mega Man 2 - Dr. Wily's Stage 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFKtYCcMWT4

BMS - Mucho Stereo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihNqoBMhe_s (This is a favorite of mine. Produced by El-P)
Mortal Kombat (Genesis) - Entrance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ck2ggeiq5w&feature=related

Cocoa Brovaz - super brooklyn: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxSXaLfBnYQ
Super Mario Bros. - Underground: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0SuIMUoShI

I might post some more later.

 

[TeK-DeLorean]

Dom Kennedy: Locals Only
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9UXCp9vyqQ

Chrono Trigger OST: Secrets of the Forest
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPjRTvMAptg
@1:40~

Beautiful

@ Def Jukie Props on the BMS Joint! I thought I was the only one who peeped that sample.

 

[GhaleonQ]

Russians are all over this stuff. Dza and Pixelord (they both have other aliases, including chiptune ones) are indie-famous there. They do instrumental hip-hop with their main names.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtMs2k8Mh_U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdA9b6TnWvg
http://projectmooncircle.bandcamp.com/track/easy-go
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mxs0KL5ods8
http://soundcloud.com/vlek/vlek05-dza-k-for-katamari-1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1X4hZdI7IFc
http://soundcloud.com/error-broadcast/pixelord-cybernator
http://soundcloud.com/hyperboloid/pixelord-goomba-trip
http://stud.bandcamp.com/track/pixeltank

Professor Sakamoto is 1 of a ton of Japanese people doing it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zb-OPy_bYWo
http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B0049WANVQ/ He even does a Mother cover there.

The guy from 65daysofstatic (whom I don't like) put out a pretty good synthpop album this year with a little bit of European console sampling. This video is so phenomenal. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-KG7bhqUrg

 

[NM0dz]

May not count, but

Muse's song 'Bliss' sounds very similar and seems to borrow heavily from the Top Gear SNES game.

The band's singer was asked about the similarity between Bliss and the Top Gear theme and he said something along the lines of "yeah, i think i ripped the intro off some game"

comparison:
Top Gear: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFucmKJEV9g
Bliss: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5CbhCSnv38

 

[Anticitizen One]

I remember a song my friend showed me along time ago that sampled Donkey Kong Country. But for the life of me I can't remember. Anyone know?

 

[Mistle]

"Jam" by Michael Jackson has a part that is identical to the Carnival theme in Sonic 3. Complete with glass smash.

Though this could be because Michael is rumored to of helped with the soundtrack.

 

[mango drank]

What's with rappers sampling SNES-era Square RPGs, haha

This guy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8EJ2zrkncs

Sampling Secret of Mana: Star of Darkness:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH4vY2kyQDw

 

[GhaleonQ]

Rustie did it often before Glass Swords, too.

 

[Ben Morales]

This is one of my favorites.

Janet Jackson's China Love contains a sample from Legend of Mana's Moonlit City Roa.

 

[Swag]

J. Cole's Dollar and a Dream III samples "Darkness of the Unknown" from Kingdom Hearts II.

This blew my mind once I heard it

 

[MuddyDonut]

Those Bone Thug samples just blew my mind.

This is a sample of Snake Eater into a Dubstep song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=RadZTuZEKlM

Army of The Pharaohs Samples Bully:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=SDcLhkiLWEM#!
Said Sample:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=x9MUVnmVCiU

Here is a Nas Song sampling FF8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2l8LTKqSY4

Motherfucking SOUL SURVIOR by Young Jeezy samples GoldenEye
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4DOx8PddEj4#!
Said Sample:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KQ4vqsCdDd4

Del The Funkee Homosapien Sampling DarkStalkers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=k8I-f3v5TAE#!
Said Sample at 5:55:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=i86bsvxnIyg

And alot more for those interested here:
http://www.whosampled.com/song-tag/Video Game/sampled/1/

 

[Gino]

I recommend everyone listen to this Mega man sampling song.

Http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWFnXpPT3Ao&feature=youtube_gdata_player

These guys are pretty unknown but I think it's pretty tight.

 

[Ben Morales]

Del The Funkee Homosapien Sampling DarkStalkers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=k8I-f3v5TAE#!
Said Sample at 5:55:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=i86bsvxnIyg

Mad props for sampling Darkstalkers. Takayuki Iwai was a Capcom OG! Love Del!

 

[Riposte]

What's stopping SE from suing some of these guys? There was that case with Namco vs... IDK Soulja boy over Pacman?

 

[texasairhead101]

whoah Muddydonut just blew my mind with soul survivor sampling goldeneye. never put the two together

 

[Medalion]

What's stopping SE from suing some of these guys? There was that case with Namco vs... IDK Soulja boy over Pacman?

Maybe they got permission first?

Or sometimes they just pick their battles

 

[Boards of Canada]

Not totally on topic, but Quantum Redshift for Xbox samples Rare Hero from Ridge Racer for one of its songs.

 

[the-iek]

Lil Wayne sampled a song from Sword & Sworcery: http://www.hiphopisread.com/2011/08/jim-guthrie-lil-wayne-sample-example.html

 

[Snakeyes]

Motherfucking SOUL SURVIOR by Young Jeezy samples GoldenEye
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4DOx8PddEj4#!
Said Sample:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KQ4vqsCdDd4

Wow. That's why it always sounded so familiar!

This is a real example of great VGM sampling unlike that Never Been trash. The latter is not only a simplistic hackjob, but also a bunch of shitty lyrics spouted by one of the wackest rappers in the game over one of the most beautiful pieces in the CT soundtrack.

 

[Synless]

From Chrono Trigger:

Wiz Khalifa - Never Been: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKWFvbgkWls
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJtwEpQe6w0


Do you guys know other songs where this happened?

Where can I buy this?

 

[Snakeyes]

Where can I buy this?

Please don't support terrible rappers that ruin great songs. Buy J. Cole's album instead.

 

[butter_stick]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SujuC4QYEXY

Brief bit of NES Mario at 2:20.

Mr Bungle also had "WISE FROM YO GWAVE" in one song too.

 

[Synless]

Please don't support terrible rappers that ruin great songs. Buy J. Cole's album instead.

Already did.